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In a landmark event on the 27th and 28th of January 2024, Skyline Builders, Kerala’s renowned real estate developer, marked a historic milestone with the grand unveiling of its inaugural project in Dubai – Avant Garde Residences. The event coincided with the opening of the Dubai headquarters in Downtown Dubai and witnessed an extraordinary achievement as 50% of Avant Garde Residences was sold during the grand opening.

With a legacy of 158 successfully completed projects and over 16 million square feet developed in the last 35 years in India, Skyline Builders introduced Avant Garde Residences, its inaugural project in Dubai, strategically positioned in JVC, Dubai's top community for real estate sales in 2023. This project features 172 meticulously designed apartments, including Studios, 1 and 2-Bedroom units.

Anticipated to be completed by 2026, Avant Garde Residences presents an investor-friendly payment plan, with only 1% due monthly during the construction period. The starting price of AED 625,000 for a Studio Apartment has already sparked keen interest, offering excellent value for money in Dubai's real estate market.

KV Abdul Azeez, Chairman, and Managing Director at Skyline Builders, said: "Skyline’s vision for the future naturally gravitated to Dubai. The city’s progressive leadership and relentless pursuit of excellence have propelled the Emirate to become a leading international business and tourism destination. Dubai attracts global talent to its harmonious community, and we hope to become a part of Dubai’s exciting future.”

To commemorate this historic milestone, Skyline Builders has also inaugurated a stunning show apartment for Avant Garde Residences in its Dubai headquarters in Downtown Dubai.  

Spanning over 300,000 square feet, the tower features more than 22 lifestyle amenities, including a health club, infinity pool, game room, and a children’s play area. The contemporary design, inspired by the Arabian desert and Gulf, combined with European interior influences, promises a vibrant, self-sufficient community with world-class features and amenities.

During the office grand opening in Dubai, an impressive 50% of Avant Garde Residences has already been sold, highlighting the strong demand and positive reception from the discerning Dubai real estate market. Nearly all of the 2-Bedroom apartments have been booked due to their spacious areas in contrast with the market average in JVC.

About Skyline Builders:

Established in 1989, Skyline Builders, led by Chairman and Managing Director KV Abdul Azeez and Executive Director Sahl Azeez, stands as a distinguished real estate developer with a legacy of 158 projects and more than 16 million square feet in its 35 years of existence. Skyline Builders has earned the trust of nearly 8,000 customers. As it expands to Dubai with the Avant Garde Residences project, Skyline Builders brings its legacy of trust and excellence, aligning with Dubai's progressive landscape and aiming to become a part of the city's exciting future.

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Abu Dhabi, Émirats arabes unis - vendredi, 20. janvier 2023 AETOSWire 

Tenu sous le thème « Renforcer l'ambition et promouvoir l'inclusion », le Forum a souligné la nécessité d'une collaboration multipartite pour fournir des solutions efficaces aux pays en développement

« Nous devons honorer et respecter la façon dont la nature est conçue, et non imposer notre volonté », a déclaré l'acteur de cinéma américain et militant écologiste Adrian Grenier

Tenu dans le cadre de la Semaine du développement durable d'Abu Dhabi 2023, le Prix Zayed pour la Durabilité, le prix pionnier des Émirats Arabes Unis pour la récompense de l'excellence en matière de développement durable et des efforts humanitaires, a accueilli hier des dignitaires gouvernementaux, des chefs d'entreprise, des jeunes, des médias internationaux et des militants écologistes pour le Forum inaugural du Prix Zayed pour la Durabilité.

Organisées sous le thème « Renforcer l'ambition et promouvoir l’inclusion », les conversations de haut niveau et les discussions d’experts ont mis en lumière les mesures importantes prises par diverses parties prenantes pour apporter des solutions pratiques aux défis du climat et de la durabilité.

En fait, les conférenciers ont présenté les nombreux avantages sociaux, économiques et environnementaux résultant de cette initiative, permettant d’exécuter un changement positif et percutant pour les communautés vulnérables souvent situées dans les pays du Sud.

Lors d'une discussion avec Eleni Giokis, présentatrice et correspondante de CNN, Adrian Grenier, militant écologiste et acteur de cinéma américain, a exprimé son ferme engagement à promouvoir l'investissement dans des solutions qui contribuent à créer un changement positif dans le monde.

Ainsi, M. Grenier a expliqué qu'il a toujours été un défenseur de la protection de l'environnement et a souligné la nécessité pour chacun de prendre conscience de son lien inhérent avec la terre et de redonner à la nature.

« Être acteur, apprendre mes répliques est la partie la plus facile », a-t-il déclaré. « Le plus dur est de trouver le lien avec la Terre et de trouver l'équilibre. J'apprends tous les jours et j'ai trouvé une nouvelle appréciation pour ceux qui ont les compétences et l'engagement nécessaires pour relever les défis toujours plus grands de l'environnement. »

M. Grenier a ajouté : « À un moment donné de notre évolution, nous nous sommes séparés de la nature et nous avons adhéré à l'idée que nous la contrôlions. Ma démarche consiste à écouter la sagesse conçue dans la nature et sa capacité à créer de la stabilité et de la résilience. Nous devons honorer et respecter la façon dont la nature est conçue, et non imposer notre volonté. »

En outre, M. Grenier a déclaré qu'il avait hâte de participer à la COP28 aux Émirats arabes unis. « Il est impératif que les dirigeants du monde entier se réunissent et commencent à ramer dans la même direction et à rechercher l'étoile polaire qui conduira vers un environnement neutre en carbone. Ce qui me passionne, c'est de voir des idées mises en pratique. J'espère que les personnes qui font une différence pourront participer à la conversation. »

En effet, lors de la première session de dialogue du forum, intitulée « Façonner des communautés durables », les intervenants ont partagé des exemples et des expériences sur l'impact continu de la mise en œuvre de solutions durables dans divers secteurs dans leurs organisations. Ils ont discuté de l'importance d'une collaboration intersectorielle et d'une action unifiée pour garantir que personne ne soit laissé de côté alors que nous entrons dans la décennie d'action pour atteindre les objectifs de développement durable des Nations Unies.

Animée par Jim Steinman, journaliste à Reuters, cette session a réuni Satya Tripathi, secrétaire général de l'Alliance mondiale pour une planète durable, Tala Al Ramahi, directrice, l’Initiative « Atteindre le dernier kilomètre », et Kristina Schirka, PDG à l’association Énergie pour tous, pour partager des perspectives diverses.

Soulignant la nécessité d'autonomiser les communautés locales par le biais de l'agriculture durable, Satya Tripathi a déclaré : « Un milliard de personnes travaillent dans l'agriculture. Si nous considérons qu’une famille moyenne est formée de quatre personnes, cela représente 50% de la population mondiale. Et si nous réussissons à réparer nos systèmes alimentaires, nous pourrons résoudre le problème climatique. Nous devons tendre la main aux personnes qui ont besoin de changer leur vie pour le mieux, et ainsi nous pouvons réaliser un changement de paradigme dans le monde. »

En plus, lors de la deuxième discussion de group intitulée « Combler le fossé », les intervenants ont évoqué la nécessité pour les institutions financières traditionnelles de donner la priorité à des portefeuilles d'investissement plus durables, respectueux du climat, capables d’avoir un impact social positif, afin de suivre le rythme des objectifs de l'agenda 2030 pour le développement durable et de 2050 pour le climat.

Animée par Eleni Giokis, la discussion a accueilli Swapna Gupta, partenaire à Avaana Capital, et Jérôme Ponrouch, responsable de l'engagement des entreprises et du développement durable au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique à BNP Paribas.

Soulignant les opportunités offertes aux jeunes d'innover pour l'avenir, la session intitulée « Voix des jeunes » du Forum a vu la participation de deux précédents lauréats du prix Zayed pour la Durabilité dans la catégorie des écoles secondaires mondiales : Toby Thorpe, maire adjoint de Huon Valley en Tasmanie, et Jackline Wambua, étudiante à l'université de Stanford.

Dans le cadre de sa participation, M. Thorpe a déclaré que le Prix l'avait incité à prendre des mesures positives. « La durabilité est une opportunité, et ma génération a le potentiel de changer le monde grâce à des solutions efficaces. L'importance de l'empathie est sous-estimée. Nous progressons lorsque nous travaillons ensemble, et nous ne pouvons avoir d'impact que si nous établissons de véritables liens, » a-t-il déclaré.

Toby a déclaré que l'élément le plus important qu’il a tiré de la Semaine du développement durable d'Abu Dhabi 2023 est le commentaire du Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, ministre de l'industrie et des technologies avancées aux Émirats arabes unis et directeur général du prix Zayed pour la Durabilité, selon lequel « le progrès ne s'arrête jamais. »

« La semaine prochaine, je mènerai la première action climatique au sein du Conseil de Huon Valley pour garantir que ma communauté locale soit à l'avant-garde des solutions durables et que la durabilité soit au cœur des activités de notre Conseil. J'espère inspirer les générations futures en m'inspirant de l'héritage de feu Cheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan dans toute la Tasmanie et dans toute l'Australie, » a-t-il ajouté.

De sa part, Jackline Wambua a déclaré que l'obtention du prix lui avait appris le pouvoir de l'éducation transformatrice et de l'écoute.

« Le Prix a été un élément clé de mon parcours éducatif. Il m'a appris le pouvoir d'une éducation transformatrice. Nous sommes sur la Terre depuis trop longtemps, alors avec ce temps, nous ferions mieux de créer un changement transformateur pour la génération à venir. Il m’a aussi appris l'importance des relations humaines et de la prise en compte de chaque être humain dans chaque solution que nous élaborons. » Elle a exhorté tout le monde à adopter l'éthique de "Sawa Bona" - "Je vous vois, je vous apprécie et je suis là" - afin que nous puissions transformer des idées brillantes en solutions tangibles.

D’ailleurs, les intervenants de la dernière discussion de group au Forum intitulée « l'impact par l'innovation » ont discuté de la manière par laquelle les organisations peuvent améliorer l'accès aux services essentiels tels que les soins de santé, l'eau et l'énergie, même dans les communautés éloignées et vulnérables, grâce aux avancées techniques et aux modèles de prestation améliorés.

Jim Stenman de Reuters a mené la discussion avec Nicole Iseppi, directrice générale pour l'innovation énergétique mondiale à Bezos Earth Fund, David Pong, PDG de Wateroam, et Guillermo Pepe, fondateur et PDG de Mamotest.

S'exprimant sur le rôle important de la collaboration pour soutenir le déploiement des innovations dans les pays en développement, Nicole Iseppi a déclaré : « Nous nous réunissons pour réfléchir à la manière de changer les modèles commerciaux et de conduire les efforts pour mener à bien les projets en employant l'innovation, notamment dans les pays en développement, par le biais de technologies telles que les réseaux métropolitains et les centres d’énergies renouvelables distribuées, et travailler pour trouver des moyens de réduire le coût des projets d'énergie renouvelable dans les pays africains afin qu’ils puissent accroître leur développement. »

A propos du Prix Zayed pour la Durabilité

Le Prix Zayed pour la Durabilité est le prix mondial pionnier des Émirats arabes unis en matière de développement durable et un hommage à l'héritage du défunt père fondateur des Émirats arabes unis, le Cheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. Créé en 2008, le Prix Zayed pour la Durabilité vise à faire progresser le développement durable et l'action humanitaire en reconnaissant et en récompensant les petites et moyennes entreprises, les organisations à but non lucratif et les écoles secondaires qui proposent des solutions percutantes, innovantes et inspirantes dans les domaines de la Santé, de l’Alimentation, de l’Énergie, de l’Eau et des Écoles secondaires à travers le monde. Grâce à ses 96 lauréats, le prix a influencé positivement la vie de 378 millions de personnes dans le monde.

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SEATTLE - Wednesday, 25. January 2023 AETOSWire 

Second AWS Region in Australia provides customers with more options to run workloads with even greater resilience and availability, securely store data in Australia, and serve end users with even lower latency

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region is estimated to support an average of more than 2,500 full-time jobs annually through a planned investment of more than $4.5 billion (approx. A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037

Hundreds of thousands of customers, including ANZ, Littlepay, and RMIT University, use local AWS infrastructure to innovate

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced the launch of its second AWS infrastructure Region in Australia—the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. Starting today, developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations, will have greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from AWS data centers located in Australia. AWS is planning to invest an estimated $4.5 billion (approx. A$6.8 billion) in Australia by 2037 through the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region. For more information about AWS Global Infrastructure, visit aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure.

“Australia has a strong history of technical innovation, and the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia provides even greater resilience and enables more customers to develop cloud-based applications that help fuel economic development across the country,” said Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of Infrastructure Services at AWS. “The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region adds to our ongoing infrastructure expansion and investments in Australia since we launched the AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region in 2012. We are proud to deepen our investment by driving local job creation, building cloud skills, and creating opportunities for growth and collaboration with our local customers and AWS Partners.”

“We know how important access to secure cloud infrastructure is to Victorian businesses, and providing more choice will deliver a boost to the economy, support innovation, and help to create new jobs locally,” said Victorian Minister for Trade and Investment Tim Pallas.

With the launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, AWS now has 99 Availability Zones across 31 geographic regions, with announced plans to launch 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. AWS Regions are composed of Availability Zones that place infrastructure in separate and distinct geographic locations. The AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region consists of three Availability Zones and joins the existing AWS Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, which opened in November 2012. Availability Zones are located far enough from each other to support customers’ business continuity and near enough to provide low latency for high availability applications that use multiple Availability Zones. Each Availability Zone has independent power, cooling, and physical security and is connected through redundant, ultra-low latency networks. AWS customers focused on high availability can design their applications to run in multiple Availability Zones to achieve even greater fault tolerance.

The launch of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region will enable local customers with data residency preferences to store data securely in Australia while providing customers with even lower latency to drive greater productivity, more efficient business operations, and enhanced real-time application performance. Customers will also have access to advanced AWS technologies to drive innovation including compute, storage, networking, business applications, developer tools, data analytics, security, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

AWS also released an economic impact study estimating that the company’s projected spending on the construction and operation of the new Region will support more than 2,500 full-time jobs at external businesses annually, with a planned $4.5 billion (approx. A$6.8 billion) investment in Australia by 2037. The investment includes capital expenditures on the construction of data centers, operational expenses related to ongoing utilities and facility costs, and purchases of goods and services from regional businesses. These jobs, including construction, facility maintenance, engineering, telecommunications, and other jobs within the country’s broader economy, will be part of the AWS supply chain in Australia. The construction and operation of the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region is also estimated to add approximately $10.6 billion (approx. A$15.9 billion) to Australia’s GDP by 2037.

Customers welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

Hundreds of thousands of organizations in Australia are among the millions of active customers using AWS in more than 190 countries around the world. Enterprises in Australia choose AWS to innovate and assist with accelerating time to market. Customers using AWS include Airtasker, Animal Logic, ANZ Bank, Atlassian, Canva, Cochlear, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Jim’s Group, Kmart, Lion, Lovisa, National Australia Bank, Optus, PEXA Group, Pizza Hut, Smiling Mind, Swimming Australia, Target, Telstra, Ticketek, Woodside Energy, and Youfoodz. Australian public sector customers use AWS to help drive cost savings and better serve local citizens. These customers include FrontierSI, Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), University of Melbourne, and Victorian Land Registry Services. Australian startups, including Brighte, FloodMapp, FrankieOne, Illuvium, Law On Earth, Littlepay, Mr Yum, Omniscient Neurotechnology (o8t), Reejig, and Swoop Aero, are building their businesses with the use of AWS to rapidly scale nationally and around the world.

ANZ Bank provides banking and financial products and services to more than 8.5 million retail and business customers, and operate across 32 markets. “We plan to deploy our AWS targeted workloads and applications through the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region on day one and want to make it our long-term primary AWS location,” said Gerard Florian, group executive of Technology at ANZ. “The lower latency and higher performance we expect of the new AWS Region in Melbourne will help us improve our customer experience and accelerate our cloud adoption.”

Littlepay is a Melbourne-based financial technology company that works with more than 250 transport and mobility providers to enable contactless payments on local buses, city networks, and national public transport systems. “Our mission is to create a universal payment experience around the world, which requires world-class global infrastructure that can grow with us,” said Amin Shayan, CEO at Littlepay. “To drive a seamless experience for our customers, we ingest and process over 1 million monthly transactions in real time using AWS, which enables us to generate insights that help us improve our services. We are excited about the launch of a second AWS Region in Australia, as it gives us access to advanced technologies, like machine learning and artificial intelligence, at a lower latency to help make commuting a simpler and more enjoyable experience.”

PEXA Group operates Australia’s leading digital property settlement platform, which provides an efficient, reliable, and secure settlement experience for home buyers and sellers. “Operational resilience is at the heart of our commitment to customers and our regulatory imperatives, which is why it is a top strategic priority at PEXA,” said Eglantine Etiemble, chief technology officer at PEXA Group. “The launch of a second AWS Region in Australia makes it possible for us to deploy applications securely across multiple Regions to improve the availability and performance of our PEXA platform and continue helping more than 20,000 families a week settle their homes sooner.”

RMIT is a public research university with more than 96,000 students globally. “The launch of an AWS Region in Melbourne gives us the additional capacity to assist researchers, students, and academics to deliver world-class research outcomes that benefit society,” said professor Calum Drummond, deputy vice chancellor of Research and Innovation and vice president at RMIT. “We recently launched RMIT University’s AWS Cloud Supercomputing facility, known as RACE. RMIT researchers are using RACE to advance battery technologies, photonics, and geospatial science. The low latency and high throughput of the AWS Region in Melbourne, combined with our high-bandwidth private fiber network, will enable researchers and students to innovate beyond the limitations of traditional on-premises data centers.”

Australian AWS Partners also welcome the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region

The AWS Partner Network (APN) includes tens of thousands of independent software vendors (ISVs) and systems integrators (SIs) around the world. AWS Partners build innovative solutions and services on AWS, and the APN helps by providing business, technical, marketing, and go-to-market support to customers. AWS ISVs, SIs, and consulting partners help enterprise and public sector customers migrate to AWS, deploy mission-critical applications, and provide a full range of monitoring, automation, and management services for customers' cloud environments. Examples of Australian-based AWS Partners include Cevo, CMD Solutions, DiUS, IntelligenceBank, Local Measure, NCS, Stax, Unleash live, Urban.io, and Versent. For the full list of AWS Partners, visit aws.amazon.com/partners.

Cevo is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that provides cloud services such as migration, data analytics, and managed services to Australian companies including David Jones, Insignia Financial, MYOB, and Jim’s Group. “Working with AWS has enabled us to expand our team by more than 60 consultants in the past 12 months to meet increased customer demand for deploying highly-regulated cloud environments,” said James Lewis, CEO at Cevo. “As cloud adoption continues to scale, we’re seeing more customers—particularly in the financial, government, and retail sectors—move to the cloud to tap into advanced modernization and analytics capabilities to ideate, design and build new customer-focused services. With the AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region, we can enable customers to drive more experimentation at scale, while providing assurance that their data is stored securely in Australia.”

Commitment to sustainability

As part of The Climate Pledge, Amazon is committed to reaching net-zero carbon across its business by 2040 and is on a path to powering operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, five years ahead of the original 2030 target. Amazon is the world’s largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, and as of 2021, reached 85% renewable energy across its business. Additionally, AWS will be water positive by 2030, returning more water to communities than it uses in its direct operations. Amazon has three renewable energy investments in Australia, which include a wind farm in Hawkesdale, Victoria, and two solar farms in New South Wales, in Gunnedah and Suntop. When all three projects are operational, these renewable energy investments are expected to generate 717,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy annually, the equivalent of the annual power use of almost 115,000 Australian homes. Amazon now has 57 renewable energy projects across the Asia-Pacific region.

About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 99 Availability Zones within 31 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.

About Amazon

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.

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Snowfield Area and new main quests released
Max. Level for Character, Constitution, and Inner Force increased
New Legendary Party Leader Spirit, Small White Dragon Chunryu, shares its skill effects with party members

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wemade’s blockbuster mobile MMORPG MIR4 released a new battlefield, Snowfield Area, on January 26th.

Snowfield Area is divided into 5 parts: Nine Dragon Ice Field, Nine Dragon Ice Palace, Nine Dragon Labyrinth, Sagittarion Valley, and Sagittarion Temple. Players can clear new quests in Snowfield Area and begin new adventures to find the lost Princess Cheonpa.

Max. character Level has been increased to 180. The Max. level for Constitution has also been increased to 19, and Inner Force to 18. Upon reaching Lv. 180, characters will be able to obtain 'Level Reward Coffer' which contains 'Mystic Mystical Piece Summon Box', 'Epic Divine Dragon's Enhancement Stone', and more, as well as 'Legendary Blue Dragon Statue'.

The first Party Leader Spirit, Small White Dragon Chunryu, has also been added. The spirit's effects are applied to all nearby party members when a character that this spirit summoned becomes the party leader.

The Legendary Water Spirit increases party members' ATK DMG and reduces DMG received from boss monsters. It can also increase Hunting EXP Boost, Antidemon Power, Item Drop Chance and more.

From My Battle, To Our War! Detailed information on MIR4 can be found on the official website.

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Wassim Al-Khatib Joins Lazard as Chief Executive Officer, Middle East and North Africa Investment Banking

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Lazard Ltd (NYSE: LAZ) today announced the appointment of Wassim Al-Khatib as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the firm’s Financial Advisory business in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), and CEO of Lazard Saudi Arabia, subject to regulatory approval. Wassim Al-Khatib will be based in the Riyadh office, which will serve as Lazard’s regional MENA Investment Banking hub.

"We are pleased to have Wassim join us as CEO of our MENA Investment Banking business," said Peter Orszag, Chief Executive Officer of Financial Advisory at Lazard. "With his extensive experience and proven track record, Wassim will work alongside MENA Chair Sarah Al-Suhaimi in leading our Riyadh office to continued success and in expanding Lazard’s engagement with clients in the region.”

“Wassim has played decisive roles advising on many important transactions in MENA. He is a talented and well-regarded professional and his appointment means that we now have ample capacity to service our clients in the region,” said Sarah Al-Suhaimi, Chair of Lazard’s Financial Advisory business in MENA.

“I am happy to join Lazard and to lead the Investment Banking and Financial Advisory business in the Middle East and North Africa. Building on the firm’s exceptional depth of expertise across industry sectors and geographies globally, as well as its strong commitment to the MENA region, we are ideally positioned to provide the best possible support to our local clients and to international companies looking to expand in the Middle East and North Africa,” said Wassim Al- Khatib.

Wassim Al-Khatib was previously Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Citigroup Saudi Arabia. He earlier served as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking at NCB Capital where he participated in and led major market transactions in the Saudi and international markets. Wassim Al-Khatib has also been the Vice Chairman of the Arranging and Advising Committee of Saudi Arabia’s Capital Markets Authority since 2021.

About Lazard

Lazard, one of the world's preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms, operates from 41 cities across 26 countries in North, Central and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. With origins dating to 1848, the firm provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, strategic matters, restructuring and capital structure, capital raising and corporate finance, as well as asset management services to corporations, partnerships, institutions, governments and individuals. For more information on Lazard, please visit www.lazard.com. Follow Lazard at @Lazard

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LUXEMBOURG - Monday, 23. January 2023

Extended partnership will see Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in the DRC benefit from SES’s O3b high-throughput, low-latency medium earth orbit connectivity to support industry-leading operational technologies and staff welfare

(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Project in The Democratic Republic of Congo will continue to enjoy high-speed satellite-based connectivity services as part of a new agreement between Ivanhoe Mines and SES, the two companies announced today. The enhanced partnership builds on a successful five-year relationship between SES and Ivanhoe Mines and comes at a time of significant investment in low-latency, high-capacity solutions in the region following the boom in the African mining industry.

The O3b constellation is powering connectivity for leading mining operators, driving a digitalisation revolution for the sector that is helping to increase profitability while improving worker safety and accountability. This model enables operators to cost-effectively scale connectivity as needed throughout the lifecycle of a mine, ensuring assets have the right amount of bandwidth at any given time to meet digitalisation requirements.

Caroline Kamaitha, Vice President, Sales Africa at SES, said: “We’re proud to continue delivering reliable high-speed connectivity to DRC’s mining industry through our O3b high-throughput and low-latency connectivity services, enabling mining companies to implement new services and applications that will improve workers’ safety, digitalise operations and maximise profitability through increased agility and automation.”

Anil Udayabhanu, Head of Technology at Kamoa Copper, said: “Our long-standing partnership with SES has already helped us to improve the profitability of our extraction, and supported our goal of improving the safety and welfare of all of our staff. In addition to that, O3b connectivity services will also help us leverage the latest applications, communicate in real time and maximise our productivity.”

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About SES

SES has a bold vision to deliver amazing experiences everywhere on earth by distributing the highest quality video content and providing seamless connectivity around the world. As the leader in global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world’s only multi-orbit constellation of satellites with the unique combination of global coverage and high performance, including the commercially-proven, low-latency Medium Earth Orbit O3b system. By leveraging a vast and intelligent, cloud-enabled network, SES is able to deliver high-quality connectivity solutions anywhere on land, at sea or in the air, and is a trusted partner to the world’s leading telecommunications companies, mobile network operators, governments, connectivity and cloud service providers, broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners. SES’s video network carries about 8,000 channels and has an unparalleled reach of 366 million households, delivering managed media services for both linear and non-linear content. The company is listed on Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). Further information is available at: www.ses.com.

About Ivanhoe

The Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine — a joint venture between Ivanhoe Mines (39.6%), Zijin Mining Group (39.6%), Crystal River Global Limited (0.8%) and the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (20%) — is a very large, near-surface, flat-lying, stratiform copper deposit with adjacent prospective exploration areas within the Central African Copperbelt, approximately 25 kilometres west of the town of Kolwezi and about 270 kilometres west of the provincial capital of Lubumbashi.

Kamoa-Kakula began producing copper concentrates in May 2021 and began commercial production on July 1, 2021. Phased expansion is projected to make Kamoa-Kakula the second largest copper complex globally. Kamoa-Kakula is powered by clean, renewable hydro-generated electricity and is projected to be among the world’s lowest greenhouse gas emitters per unit of metal produced, as confirmed by a 2020 independent audit performed by Hatch Ltd., of Mississauga, Canada. The Kakula Mine will have one of the most favourable environmental footprints of any tier-one copper mine worldwide. Along with a relatively small surface footprint, approximately 55% of the mine’s tailings will be pumped back into underground workings. Ivanhoe Mines has pledged to achieve net-zero operational greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1 and 2) at the Kamoa-Kakula Copper Mine.

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Suzanne Ong
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The project will be the largest malic and fumaric acid facility once complete

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Bartek Ingredients advances its plans to strengthen its position as the world’s largest producer of malic and food-grade fumaric acid with the groundbreaking of its state-of-the-art, $175 million malic and fumaric acid production facility.

The company held a groundbreaking ceremony on Jan. 12 with Canadian government officials and local community leaders to celebrate the official commencement of the construction project.

“We are thrilled to be breaking ground on our new facility which will set a new global benchmark for safety, efficiency, and environmental performance,” Bartek President and CEO John Burrows said. “We are pleased to be investing in the community of Stoney Creek and proud to play an integral part in supporting local industries and the local economy. We are thankful for our partnerships with the provincial and federal government and Environment Hamilton and their support and guidance throughout the process.”

Among those in attendance at the groundbreaking were Neil Lumsden, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport and Member of Provincial Parliament for Hamilton East, Victor Fedeli, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Lisa Thompson, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and Chad Collins, Member of Federal Parliament for Hamilton East-Stoney Creek.

“Congratulations to everyone at Bartek Ingredients on this exciting milestone,” Minister Fedeli said. “Bartek’s $175 million investment will ensure that the company can continue to expand and create more good-paying jobs in Hamilton and the surrounding region. Together, we’re building a stronger Ontario with opportunities for all people.”

The facility will double Bartek’s production capacity and propel new product development and other innovation efforts. It is also being built with sustainability in mind and is expected to be the most environmentally sustainable facility in the industry – projected to reduce per unit greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80 percent.

“Ontario has a clean energy advantage and is a sustainable and predictable place to do business,” Minister Piccini said. “As a result, we’re attracting the jobs of tomorrow. My Ministry was proud to work closely with Bartek through the permitting and approvals process to help secure this significant investment to Ontario.”

Minister Thompson added: “Bartek’s new state-of-the-art facility will be a shining example of Ontario’s robust agri-food manufacturing and processing sector. This major investment will create good-paying jobs in the local community and further strengthen Ontario’s value-added food supply chain.”

Through this project, Bartek will inject $100 million into the local Stoney Creek economy. The facility is expected to be fully operational at the beginning of 2024.

“Hamilton’s Bartek facility will soon become one of the world’s largest malic and food-grade acid production plants,” Minister Lumsden said. “Our government is excited to see local manufacturers, such as Bartek, invest in Ontario to grow and create more good-paying jobs right here in Hamilton!”

For more information, please visit bartek.ca or contact Bartek at info@bartek.ca.

About Bartek Ingredients

For over 50 years, Bartek Ingredients Inc. has been a leading global manufacturer of malic acid, fumaric acid, and maleic anhydride. Headquartered in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, Bartek employs 120 people across its two production facilities in Southern Ontario. Bartek’s facilities are registered to the ISO 9001:2015 Standard. Bartek also holds the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety certification, and it distributes to more than 40 countries around the world. With new ownership in 2019 and significant investments, Bartek’s presence in the food and beverage space continues to be bolstered by highly innovative products and services that utilize deep product expertise and application knowledge to offer solutions to industry needs. For more information about Bartek, visit bartek.ca/.

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Erin Robbins
MarketPlace
erin.robbins@marketplacebranding.com
+1-314-366-3562

Making Mythical the Second-largest Blockchain Processor of Digital Assets behind Ethereum

(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mythical Games, the next-generation gaming technology studio, has launched Mythical Marketplace 2.0 following the acquisition of marketplace tech start-up DMarket, as part of its continued commitment to innovation in gaming. The new marketplace is built on Mythical’s new layer 1 EVM blockchain and powered by the Mythos native ecosystem token, MYTH. The acquisition is a significant milestone for Mythical Games, with DMarket’s tech facilitating the most advanced trading platform for digital assets. It makes Mythical the world’s second-largest processor of digital assets on a distributed ledger after the Ethereum mainnet, as of December.

Mythical’s Marketplace 2.0 has fully integrated DMarket’s technology to feature principles of its blended payment gateway, featuring a powerful AML and anti-fraud protection system built on more than a decade of industry experience. Combined with Mythical’s expertise in gaming and digital assets, Marketplace 2.0 provides a frictionless user experience that enables peer-to-peer transactions and empowerment for gamers looking to participate in the play-and-own gaming economies of the future. The Mythical Chain has been live for six weeks, processing over 2 million transactions.

“We founded Mythical Games in 2018 with the idea of ushering in both the next generation of gaming and the next generation of gamers. Half a decade later, we’re continuing to do just that. Mythical’s Marketplace 2.0 was designed to not only enhance our platform but, more importantly, improve the player experience and set the standard for the future of gaming,” said John Linden, co-founder and CEO, Mythical Games. “All too often, developers tout features as ‘seamless’ and ‘integrated’ when discussing gaming or metaverse projects. In reality, these solutions are still very complicated and not made for gamers. But with these monumental steps forward, Mythical will provide users with an experience that delivers on both.”

Marketplace 2.0 will support NFL Rivals and Nitro Nation World Tour assets, with plans to expand to all Mythical titles on the Mythical Chain. Assets on the Mythical Chain will be entirely governed by smart contracts with both ownership and commerce logic enforced on a secure distributed digital ledger.

“The new horizons of the gaming space have always been the main focus for DMarket. We’re excited to become a part of Mythical Games' work to reduce barriers to entry for innovative game developers and thriving new economies,” said Vlad Panchenko, co-founder and CEO of DMarket. “We share a vision of how the industry will evolve and how we all can contribute and bring more fun to the gaming community worldwide.”

DMarket’s office in Kyiv, Ukraine, becomes part of Mythical East, with its headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal. Its co-founders, Vlad Panchenko and Tamara Slanova, will become part of Mythical’s Executive leadership team, with a particular focus on building the best and easiest marketplace technology for the gaming industry.

DMarket has also adopted the Mythical Chain for its existing marketplace, which will continue to operate outside of the Mythical Marketplace. DMarket.com will retain the familiar experience with purchases in USD in the web experience; however, all trades are recorded on the Mythical Chain to provide full transparency to the community.

For more information on Mythical Games’ Marketplace 2.0, visit http://mythical.market.

About Mythical Platform

Mythical Platform can be added to pre-existing game economies or built into the design of a new game from the ground up, and enables management of digital asset trades, payments, users, and inventory management, making it possible for buyers and sellers of digital assets to transact confidently in an environment founded on transparency, security, trust and value. Mythical Marketplace provides seamless integration to game inventory and offers fraud protection, fee optimization, and soon asset bundling and buyer and seller pricing recommendations. Mythical partners will also have access to proprietary intelligence, market design and market intervention tools that enable easy and safe digital asset transactions.

About Mythical Games

Acknowledged by Forbes’ Disruptive Technology Companies to Watch in 2019 and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas 2021, Mythical is a next-generation games technology company creating a gaming ecosystem by leveraging tradeable digital assets for tools that enable players, creators, artists, brands and game developers to become stakeholders and owners in new creator-focused game economies.

Led by gaming industry veterans, the team specializes in building games around player-owned economies and has helped develop major franchises, including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Marvel Strike Force and Skylanders.

About DMarket

DMarket is the biggest marketplace for trading gaming and esports digital assets. Based on the Newzoo report, it is also one of the top three blockchain-based marketplaces worldwide. The company was founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneurs Vlad Panchenko and Tamara Slanova. DMarket's partners and customers include Darewise, GSC Game World, the Na’Vi esports team, Unity, Xsolla, and others.

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Nate Nesbitt
nate.nesbitt@mythical.games

(BUSINESS WIRE)--Watts Water Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: WTS), will hold a live webcast of its conference call to discuss Fourth Quarter 2022 results on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Watts Water Technologies, Inc. will announce its financial results for this period in a press release to be issued after market close on Wednesday, February 8, 2023.

This call can be accessed by visiting the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at www.watts.com. Following the webcast, an archived version of the call will be available at the same address until February 9, 2024.

Watts Water Technologies, Inc., through its family of companies, is a global manufacturer headquartered in the USA that provides one of the broadest plumbing, heating, and water quality product lines in the world. Watts Water companies and brands offer innovative plumbing, heating, and water quality solutions for commercial, residential, and industrial applications. For more information visit www.watts.com.

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Watts Water Technologies, Inc.
Diane McClintock
Senior Vice President, FP&A and Investor Relations
Phone: 978-689-6153